Original Comic Art Articles and reports

Here’s a top ten list of Original Comic Art sold on eBay USA in April 2019. The list is based on higher ending price, but this time I’m doing two lists: one for auctioned comic art and one for Buy it Now items (some of the pricier items were sold with a Best Offer and I don’t want to make a list with uncertain prices). So basically this is more a top 20..!

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Great cover art, detailed inking and with a lot of display value. High quality pieces like this one are rare to find on eBay. This is almost a record for Bob Layton penciled original art, an Iron-Man cover was sold for $19k in last February’s Heritage Auction. Prices for Layton’s art in the last year have taken a good leap forward. (altro…)

February 2019 was a good month for Original Comic Art on Ebay, many great pieces for all kinds of collectors were auctioned (go to the weekly newsletter archives to see all of them).

This is a list of the top comic art lots sold on Ebay USAbased on higher end price, my archives may be incomplete, as “Buy It Now” auctions are difficult to track, a really good piece may last a few minutes online before selling. That said I think we have 10 very nice pieces to see!

Jack Kirby, Journey Into Mystery #124, page 16 original art, $5,1k. Pretty obvious that the King would win this chart. Nice pieces like this one usually go to other auction houses or, when on Ebay, they’re usually for sale with unrealistic Buy it Now prices.

This is the first report I post on this blog. I’ve been doing Original Comic Art auction reports weekly, since October 2017, in the Original Comic Art Tips newsletter. Click here to see this week’s newsletter (for Ebay, Heritage Sunday and the smaller auction houses) and if you’re not a subscriber go on the homepage and subscribe, it’s free!

Frank Frazetta, Buck Rogers, Famous Funnies cover art, $552k. Frazetta is probably more known/collected as a fantasy painter, so a price like this for early comics work is especially interesting. At the same time this is one of his most beloved pieces of original comic art, we’ll see if this result will drive to an increase in price for all of his non painted comic art.